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Minutes after Kenya's president-elect William Ruto said that his coalition would get on and plan for government, the coalition of Raila Odinga maintained its challenge to the presidential election results.

He is currently exploring the legal options and Mr Odinga's running mate, Martha Karua, remained defiant.

"On the matter of the election, ours is victory deferred but it's coming home," she told journalists after her Azimio la Umoja coaltion met.

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A Kenyan judge has declared unlawful an order by the Supreme Court gagging lawyers and litigants from commenting on a presidential election petition while it is still being heard, local media reports.

The gag order was announced two months ago.

It was meant to stop those involved in the petition from "prejudicing or impeding court proceedings, until judgment is delivered", Chief Justice Martha Koome had said.

But on Wednesday, High Court Judge Mugure Thande said the order failed to adhere to public participation requirements and usurped the authority of parliament, the Daily Nation newspaper reports.

Justice Thande's ruling essentially opens a race between the political sides to shape the public narrative of the expected case that Raila Odinga could file at the Supreme Court if he takes the legal route.

According to the official results, Mr Odinga narrowly lost to Deputy President William Ruto. He has rejected the results as "null and void".

The declared winner of Kenya's election, William Ruto, has said he has won a broader mandate than Kenya's previous two elections with 25% of the vote in 39 counties.

Addressing members of his coalition, he said that the public wants politicians to get on with their job and deliver, implying they do not want the election challenged as his rival Raila Odinga rejects the result.

"Learn from the people of Kenya who have settled on the issues," he said.

He also highlighted the "celebrations across Kenya" implying the people of Kenya accept the vote result.

William Ruto is continuing his speech:

"Public service will be professional and will serve Kenyans equally without preference to political affiliations," the president-elect William Ruto says.

He has asked public servants who have been "forced to take political positions to step back" and do their work professionally.

"Political business will be carried out by political actors," he says. "It’s the only way we can have a government that delivers."

William Ruto, who was announced as the winner of last week's presidential election is speaking for the first time since his rival, Raila Odinga, rejected the results, saying he will hail freedom of speech and democratic values.

"Blackmail, intimidation, threats have come to a stop", Mr Ruto said.

"I want to promise the people of Kenya that our administration will have nothing to do with the blackmail we have seen."

"We are having our democratic country back."

Speaking to members of his coalition, he did not make direct reference to Mr Odinga's comments on Tuesday.

Richard Kagoe
BBC News, Nairobi

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Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga is currently exploring his legal and constitutional options to challenge the presidential results in which he narrowly lost to Deputy President William Ruto.

He now has less than five days to file a petition at the Supreme Court.

One of the issues that is likely to shape the petition is the allegation by some commissioners of the electoral body that the chairman side-lined them in the later phases of the results tallying process.

Four commissioners out of the seven have alleged that they did not analyse the results verified by the technical team before the final declaration.

Legal experts say another issue that could form the basis of a petition is around tallying of numbers.

The four commissioners, who broke ranks with the chairman Wafula Chebukati, note that results from more than 20 constituencies had not been announced by the time the final result was declared, which they say rendered the process unconstitutional.

But opinion is divided among lawyers on the implications of the disagreement before Mr Ruto’s victory was announced.

Supreme Court judges will have 14 days to decide on whether to uphold or nullify Mr Ruto’s election once the petition is filed.

Peter Mwai
BBC Reality Check

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A look at the official presidential results declared by Kenya’s head of national electoral commission on Monday shows slightly more than 100 votes would have been cast but not allocated to anyone.

A statement by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission chair Wafula Chebukati indicates total valid votes as 14,213,137 but when you add total votes garnered by all the candidates you get 14,213,027.

Some Kenyans online have been wondering about the discrepancy:

An analysis of the results by BBC Reality Check shows the anomaly arose from entries of the votes for two counties which doesn’t correspond to votes garnered by all the candidates.

For Kilifi county in coastal Kenya, there is a difference of 10 votes and for West Pokot in the Rift Valley there is a difference of 100 votes between the votes the candidates got and the total valid votes listed for the county.

• Kilifi – 285496 while all the candidates got 285486
• West Pokot - 173705 while votes for the candidates are 173605

It is not clear whether this was just a human error.

Defender Abdou Diallo says Senegal are aiming to do better than any other African nation by reaching the World Cup semi-finals in Qatar.

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Nigerian Emmanuel Onuorah has little interest in politics - he's a baker and just wants to sell bread.

But recently in Nigeria, his job has become close to impossible.

"In the past year, wheat flour has gone up by more than 200%, sugar has gone up by almost 150%, eggs that we use for baking have gone up by about 120%," he says.

"We are running at a loss," he says. He's had to lay off 305 of his 350 staff. "How will they feed their families?"

As the president of the Premium Breadmakers Association of Nigeria, he's at the centre of a movement. In July, he rallied bakers to close their doors for four days in a "withdrawal of services" action.

"As an industry, so many bakeries have gone extinct and that was why we withdrew services to bring out our own concerns and our own challenges to the doorstep of Nigerians and to the government," he said.

He was hoping the government would take notice and reduce taxes on the products they import.

Despite his costs tripling, Mr Onuorah says he can only raise his prices by 10-12%. His customers can't afford more than that.

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Alfred Lasteck
BBC News, Dar es Salaam

Tanzania's state telecommunications firm has installed high-speed internet connectivity on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, through a national broadband project.

Information Minister Nape Nnauye launched the internet project on Tuesday saying tourists would soon be able to communicate worldwide from the summit of the mountain.

The mountain is one of Tanzania's leading tourist destinations.

Mr Nnauye said internet connectivity on the mountain was expected to reach its highest point, Uhuru peak, at 5,895m (19,341 ft) above sea level in October.

The ministry has shared some images during the launch of the project on the mountain:

Trekkers on the mountain have not had an internet connection and could not even make phone calls since connectivity ended near the starting point at around 1,860m.

The mountain attracts nearly 50,000 hikers annually from across the world who attempt to reach the summit.

Tourism is a key pillar of Tanzania’s economy, contributing 18% to the nation’s GDP. It generated $1.4bn (£1.1bn) in revenues last year.

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A TikTok user is being investigated after posting a video on the app allegedly threatening to kill patients, Ghana's Nursing and Midwifery Council said.

The TikToker is said to be a nursing student in the country.

In the video, she appeared in a nursing school uniform and claimed "she will kill any client who seeks her service as a nurse because she was forced to pursue nursing against her will", the council said in a statement, external.

"Investigations have commenced earnestly to identify the said student and apply the necessary sanctions," it said.

It said the student made the remarks out of "ignorance" about the nursing profession and urged the public to treat the video with the "contempt it deserves".

It also warned nursing students against using uniforms for unapproved activities.

Emery Makumeno
BBC News, Kinshasa

Heads of states from the southern Africa regional bloc, Sadc, will today meet in the Democratic Republic of Congo for talks on economic growth and integration.

A dozen heads of state arrived in the capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday to participate in the two-day summit, which opens on Wednesday.

The leaders will discuss how to promote industrialisation through the transformation of agriculture, the development of mineral resources and the development of value chains at the regional level.

DR Congo also intends to seek the assistance of the bloc to restore peace and security in its territory.

Another aim of the summit is the hand-over of the bloc leadership to the Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi by the current head of the bloc, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera.

The Congolese presidency tweeted pictures of some of the African leaders ahead of the summit:

Samba Cyuzuzo
BBC Great Lakes

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Rwandan singer-songwriter Yvan Buravan has died aged 27, his manager told the BBC

The singer had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was undergoing treatment in India.

He had previously been treated in Rwanda and Kenya before his transfer to India.

Buravan's music talent got noticed at the age of 14 when he finished second in a national music competition.

His 2016 hit song Malaika ushered him to stardom in Rwanda.

In 2018 he won the Prix Découvertes - one of Africa's biggest music contests organised by RFI and Unesco.

"He’s gone too soon leaving behind lots of things he was yet to finish, but he leaves us with amazing arts he has done. His legacy will live on,” his manager Bruce Intore Twagira has told the BBC.

Many Rwandans on social media are also mourning his death.

"I can't believe we have to go on about our day in a world where such a bright soul is gone," one person tweeted., external

"He was a man of honour! He earned my respect from the first day we met!" Rwandan music star Andy Bumuntu said., external

Watch Buravan's last year's interview with the BBC:

A Zimbabwean MP from the ruling Zanu PF party has been arrested over fraud and money laundering claims involving $5m (£4.1m), state-run newspaper Herald reports.

Justice Mayor Wadyajena was arrested on Tuesday alongside four others who include suspended officials of the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco).

They were arrested by officers from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission. No details were offered.

The five are expected to appear in court on Wednesday, the newspaper reports.

The state-controlled cotton buying and processing enterprise has recently been rocked by claims of theft of farm inputs and diversion of funds.

The European Union has commended Kenyans for peaceful elections and urged parties to resolve the remaining concerns through legal means.

In a statement, external, the EU said it had taken “note of the results by the IEBC declaring Mr William Ruto winner of the election and the decision to appeal by Mr Raila Odinga”.

“All political and societal leaders must avoid any violence and call for calm. It is time for political leadership and responsibility from all those linked to the electoral process,” EU High Representative Josep Borrell said.

Mr Borrell also congratulated President-elect Ruto.

Mr Odinga, the runner-up in Kenya's presidential election, on Tuesday rejected the results as "null and void" and a democratic setback.

Mr Odinga narrowly lost to Mr Ruto – who was declared the winner with 50.5% of the vote.

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Kenya held one of its most nail-biting, and controversial, elections since one-party rule ended.

Around the world people are adapting to high food prices, sometimes by changing what they eat.

Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya's presidential election calling them "null and void".

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And we leave you with this photo of runner-up Raila Odinga arriving a press conference earlier, where he called for the Kenyan presidential election result to be quashed:

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